#hers

The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-kind-to-others #grace #heart #helping-others #inner-beauty

It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#cares #family #much #others #part

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#fact #greater #in fact #make #modesty

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#detain #egoism #food-for-thought #generous #happiness

The flowers, the candles, the easy swing of the music, his daughter's perfectly made-up face, her artfully arranged hair, the swell of her pregnancy - it all cried out for love, for pride, for fatherly tenderness, even if Daphne would not look at him, even if she had walled herself up with her happiness and left him outside. He did not know how to make her forgive him. He would have to wait. ↗

— Maggie Shipstead

#wedding #art

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others. ↗

— David Seabury

#considerate #himself #others #seldom #who

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. ↗

— James Levine

#day #fathers #hour #kids #more

If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#day #games #had #i #just

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#good #i #like #myself #need

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality